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Description: Cavitating propeller in a water tunnel experiment at the David Taylor Model Basin.
Title: Cavitating-prop
Credit: "Controllable-Pitch Propeller in Large Cavitation Channel. Used for over 20 years from the 1940s, controllable-pitch propellers had been limited in the shaft horsepower (shp) they could sustain. Center work to improve their ability to take stresses up to 60,000 shp won a presidential level award." http://web.archive.org/web/20080205155941/http://www.dt.navy.mil/div/about/galleries/gallery4/095.html (Archived from the original at http://www.dt.navy.mil/div/about/galleries/gallery4/095.html)
Author: U.S. Navy
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